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Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory (2020)

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Next up is Naminé, who made her first appearance in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. She is Kairi's Nobody, who was created after Sora turned himself into a Heartless to free Kairi's heart from within him. Because of this, she has the power to manipulate not just Sora's memories, but also those of the people he's connected to. Organization XIII tries using this to their advantage by holding Naminé prisoner and forcing her to replace Sora's memories with fake ones, resulting in him "remembering" Naminé as a childhood friend as he fights his way through Castle Oblivion. Even after finding out she played him for a sucker, Sora still forgives her, an act of kindness that gives her the confidence to defy her captors. Once Sora defeats Marluxia, Naminé offers to restore his memories as a way to make up for her mistakes. However, the process would also result in their journey at Castle Oblivion being forgotten. She spends the next year slowly restoring the memories of Sora, Donald and Goofy as they are placed in a deep slumber. The ending of Kingdom Hearts II has her returning to Kairi, but she ends up getting a new body to call her own by the end of Kingdom Hearts III. She also likes to draw a lot. Like Xion, Naminé was also going through a rough time during her debut game. Being alone at Castle Oblivion with no one but the Organization to keep her company drove her to manipulate Sora so she could meet him.

For those that only know Naminé through my Rock Band videos, you get to see her in her original outfit here: a simple white dress with sandals. There's two reasons for her outfit change in RB2: she desperately needs some new clothes, and there's another band member who's practically the spitting image of her, Vanilla from World's End Club. Giving Naminé her original outfit would've made the two of them difficult to tell apart outside of their hair and eye colors. Decided to go with the rest of the Kingdom Hearts fandom and give her something light blue, with some white as a throwback to her original outfit. Naminé never uses a Keyblade in the games, but I decided to give her a guitar modeled after the Oathkeeper, with a bit of a twist. The Oathkeeper's keychain is Kairi's Wayfinder, which she gives to Sora as a good luck charm. Naminé's powers temporarily changed its appearance to a star-shaped charm, which was recreated on her guitar (partially because recreating the Wayfinder in RB2 turned out to be a pain in the ass 😅).

Decided to go for All Excellents on this one too after getting a sightread one on Xion's theme. Took a few attempts, but managed to pull it off. The sustain that ends on a double note would come back to give me trouble on the next song, though.

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"Naminé"
Standard Mode 100% FC (All Excellents)
9,806,452 A+++

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